From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[July 1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 July [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 86
Summary:
He is surveying the literature on the struggle for existence among pasture plants. Asks CD for the "many cases on record" of changed relations among plants under slightly changed conditions alluded to in the Origin. [See M. T. Masters, J. B. Lawes and J. M. Gilbert "Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land (pt 2, The botanical results)", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 1181–413.]
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B185
Summary:
In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 347
Summary:
Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 6
Summary:
Sends the name of a plant: Cotyledon stolonifera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[6–12 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, p. 805
Summary:
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 87
Summary:
Praise for Movement in plants.
He thinks G. A. Chatin, whom CD quotes [p. 389], is mistaken about movement of conifer leaves. Cites his own paper ["Relations between morphology and physiology in the leaves of certain conifers", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 17 (1880): 547–52].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[after 25 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:
Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].
Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
13 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 338
Summary:
Discusses crosses in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses peloric flowers.
Thanks for correction about furze.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
26 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 339
Summary:
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 67
Summary:
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 15 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 66
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 68
Summary:
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.
His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
6 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002)
Summary:
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[8–13 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 171: 69
Summary:
Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.
Contributor:
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